And her father, myself and some other family friends headed over to Everglades City for some stone crabs,conch fritters, soft shell crabs, and key lime pie.

This is where the stone crabs come from for the famous

'Joe's Stone Crab' on Miami Beach!

We have to drive across the state through this.

Doesn't it look pretty from the air?

On the ground .....

But this is what it really looks like.

If you like weeds , snakes and gators.....

this is your kind of place.

Pythons and gators galore and fighting for turf.

Have you heard about all the 'loonie birds'

that have let their pythons go free in the Everglades?

Talk about irresponsible....

Well, it is a real mess.

But this is no mess.

This is the gold of Florida.

Our state prize.

Maine has Lobster, and we have stone crabs.

Don't freak out.

But, can you tell me what this is?

I will give you a hint.....it tastes like chicken.

That's my girl!

She loves her stone crabs!!

Not the stuff that 'tastes like chicken.'

I surprised her with a birthday cake.

Okay peeps,

what do you think?

Is he cute?

They met while being counselors at summer camp last year.

They are going back again this summer.

He is in college in Sweden, and studying law.

I like that.

*But let me get back to where we were......

FLORIDA'S LAST FRONTIER"EVERGLADESCITYandCHOKOLOSKEE, at the entrance to the Western Everglades, were two frontieroutpostsuntil 1923 when Barron Collier madeEvergladesCitythe seat ofCollierCountyand supply depot for the construction of theTamiamiTrail. Prior to the boom, this isolated region wasFlorida's last outpost for fur trappers, plumage hunters, Cuban fishermen, and people with a disdain for modern civilization."